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Web performance testing heavyweight Keynote Systems Inc. will bulk up even more this week, launching five services that move it into promising new testing areas, including content- and user-experience analysis. The enhancements are designed to help enterprises keep their Web sites healthy and focused on business needs, as well as reduce the finger pointing that […]

BMC Software Inc. Thursday became the latest software company to turn in improved financial results for its second fiscal 2003 quarter, earning four cents a share and posting net income of $10.1 million, compared with a 22 cent loss and net loss of $53.3 million for the same quarter a year earlier. Excluding special charges, […]

Monitoring appliance provider Silverback Technologies Inc. on Monday will jump ship from Linux to Microsoft Corp.s .Net platform in the latest update to its InfoCare network, system and application monitoring tool. InfoCare 3.5, which now runs on the appliance version of Windows 2000, exploits the operating systems event log to give users access to valuable […]

Computer Associates International Inc. today reported better than a five percent boost in its second fiscal quarter revenues to $772 million a jump from $733 million in the same period last year. The positive performance helped the software maker reduce its net loss to $52 million, compared to a net loss of $291 million for […]

Path Communications Inc. will recast itself this week as an application behavior management specialist when it unveils its flagship tool designed to learn how Java applications behave and detect code-level abnormalities. But while the former consultancy may enjoy first-mover status in the ABM realm, its PAM (Path Application Manager) tool likely wont remain unique for […]

Startup Quantiva Inc. hopes to break into the Web transaction management space with a tool that draws on sophisticated mathematical algorithms to automate diagnosis of Web transaction problems from the customers perspective. The Quantiva Analysis System, announced Monday, is a service designed to help business-to-business (B2B) applications operators detect and diagnose performance problems before they […]

Low-cost software-based protocol analysis vendor Network Instruments LLC on Monday will make its first foray into WAN protocol analysis with its new WAN Observer. The protocol analysis and monitoring provider is moving into hardware-based protocol analyzers with the new WAN analyzer because of a lack of WAN interfaces in standard PC architectures. Network Instruments still […]

Unisys Corp. on Monday announced it has signed a three-year contract extension for outsourced IT services with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania valued at $252 million. The original “Data Powerhouse” contract, signed in 1999 and in effect until 2006, is valued at $621 million. While the original contract called for Unisys to consolidate the roughly 20 […]

A Pleasanton, Calif., software company has developed a tool kit to simplify the process of preparing applications for monitoring and management. AdventNet Inc. last week announced ManageEngine Suite 5, aimed at ISVs and corporate developers. The tool automates instrumentation for J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) applications using the JMX (Java Management Extensions) standard, and it […]

IBMs Tivoli unit last week introduced a sweeping set of enhancements and new tools that begin to deliver on IBMs autonomic computing initiative. Among the 26 new or enhanced management offerings IBM announced are new security and storage management tools that integrate products acquired in the acquisitions of Access360 Corp. and TrelliSoft Inc. The Access360 […]

Advanced Systems Concepts Inc. early next month will release a new version of its Active Batch distributed job scheduling tool that promises greater flexibility and ease of use. Despite the predominance of real-time processing, company officials believe that batch processing in the distributed processing world is needed now more than ever, thanks to the need […]

Greenwich Technology Partners next week will launch a new services offering aimed at helping enterprises reduce IT costs by helping them to consolidate their IT infrastructures. The White Plains, N.Y., consulting firms IT Infrastructure Consolidation Solutions cover a range of consolidation projects, including server, storage, data centers and network operations center consolidation. GTP formalized the […]